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Start up Business Series: Top 10 Tips for starting a business

10th October 2019  |  Sean Toomer

We now come to the end of our Startup Business Guide. I’ve put all the experience I’ve gained over my career as an accountant and business owner to create this guide which I hope can help as many small business owners as possible to avoid some of the mistakes I made and hopefully make a success of their business.
I leave you now with my ultimate, top 10 tips for starting a business.

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Start-up Business Series: eBook

10th October 2019  |  Sean Toomer

The Start-up Business Guide is a complete guide on how to start a small business, or what to do if you’re already running one.
Includes free workbook to complete as you go; to give you a fully working business plan.

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Free Legal Guidance for all Diverso Clients

7th October 2019  |  Sean Toomer

The Diverso Team are super excited to announce our new partnership with Hybrid Legal offering Diverso Clients free legal guidance on all their business legal issues.
Be it an issue with a contract, needing advice on an employee’s behaviour or a difficult customer who refuses to pay, Hybrid Legal are on hand to help Diverso Clients.

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Open Banking – Changes to your Xero bank feed

6th September 2019  |  Sean Toomer

‘Open Banking’ is a new regulation designed by the Competition and Markets Authority coming into effect 14th September 2019. In broad terms this means that your bank must let you share your financial information with other authorised providers.

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Save hours and hours using Receipt Bank

3rd September 2019  |  Sean Toomer

How to save hours and hours each week on your accounts by using the Receipt Bank App.

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Start up Business Series: Branding

7th August 2019  |  Sean Toomer

Branding? Isn’t that marketing? No. Your Brand is a set of values that encompasses your business as a whole; what you stand for and why you’re doing it.
Your brand needs to be clear, easy to understand and consistent in everything you do.

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Start up Business Series: Structure

7th August 2019  |  Sean Toomer

Generally, we only recommend one business structure and that’s a Limited Company. It has the most credibility, it’s agile in terms of owners/management and it’s usually most tax efficient. So that’s it, see you later.
Perhaps we could explain more…

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Start up Business Series: The Business Plan

23rd July 2019  |  Sean Toomer

Ah, business plan! What?!
My sentiments exactly. But, the good news you’re going to hear from me is that you don’t need a business plan – or not a 40 page pile of rubbish full of SWOT and graphs in the traditional sense.

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Start up Business Series: Suppliers

3rd July 2019  |  Sean Toomer

Suppliers are all too overlooked as not being too important; you pay them, so they need to do as you say, right? Wrong. Suppliers can have a huge impact on your business and they are a vital cog in your machine that delivers awesomeness to your customers. They need to be cared for and chosen based on a number of key factors.

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Start up Business Series: Breakeven

3rd July 2019  |  Sean Toomer

For the breakeven point in a small business startup, you don’t need a degree in economics nor do you need to know any complicated formulas.
Just a bit of good planning and knowing your costs, which we’ll map out in this section.

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